Atia hurt. She could feel pain rather distinctly, and she did not like it. She could feel the babies moving around inside her... and at first she dismissed it, but then she remembered what that feeling meant. And she stood up, a little too abruptly, walking to the edge of her den. Queasy... she was pretty sure her water was broken too. But she couldn't really tell. Pain had a habit of clouding her hudgement and making her... very, very angry.
"BEAU." Her voice radited with seething hatred right then. This was all his fault after all, as far as she was concern. The pain she was in, he had caused. And she was not impressed. "BEAU GET YOUR a** IN HERE!" She snarled angrily, "And then get that WOMAN Nyao! I swear to the Gods..."
Atia rarely lost her cool. She rarely got angry, or at least openly angry. Right now, she was clearly both, and her mood was not about to improve. Not by a long shot. She wanted the things inside her OUT, and she wanted them out right then and there.
Beau lay in the sun outside of the den his four paws int he air just enjoying the heat of the day, a yawn rolled over his maw as he heard Atia shout. Taking his sweeeetttt time he rolls to his pas and peers in to the dens mouth yawning. "Wanna repeat that hot cheeks?" He smirks looking Atia over with a calm, none challance, she smelled funny, of aggitation and of something else. "Babies are comin huh?" he stretches and yawns one more time "Just take a chill pill I'll go and get Nyao"
Rolling his shoulders, he lets out a long sigh and trots off towards the caesars den. After a while he trudges back to the den scratching behind one ear he licks his lips "She's coming, she said to just lay down and she'd be with you in a few with something to make you happier." He chuckles, he'd some what changed Nyaos exact words but those would do.
Atia growled, staying where she was and lying down. "Yes, I know the basic, I've done this before. Because I've already HAD children, and I never INTENED to do it again!" She snapped, raving angry now... and while Beau's normally good attiitude made her happier, right now it was gratingly annoying. When she thought back to Cato... what had he done? Whimpered and acted like a woman. But Cato had always been the woman in the relationship.
"Beau... unless she gets here fast... I am going to RIP your eyes out and EAT them!" She made very clear, letting her claws dig into the dirt of the den, growling a hissing until, quite literally, every single hair on her body was standing on end.
And then she felt a contraction... "******** BLOODY HELL!" She roared, not enjoying herself in the slightest.
Nyao pads in quietly having caught the tail end of Atias rant. She smiles gently and shakes her head "Really Atia, language." She waddled towards the elderly leopardess, her pale eyes smiling, sitting before the older female she pulls her otter skin puch from around her neck and pulls out a couple of pouches and a little bowl. "Beau, please go and put some water in this for me please." She noses th bowl towards the male leopard.
Beau bows deeply "Of course my darling." he wriggles his eye brows and scoops up the bowl in his mouth padding off out of the den once again.
Nyao turns calmly to Atia "Please lay still Atia I need to touch your stomach okay?" She puurrs quietly lifting a paw and slowly stroking along Atias distended stomach. "Oh Atia, oh dear, ho many are you having my dove?" She whispers her brow furrowing deeply, she could feel this was going to be a hard one, for them both and she herself really was in no state to do a difficult birth. She preyed quietly to the gods, hoping her medicines would be enough.
Beau saunters back in putting the bowl back in front of nyao, he smiles lightly at Atia "Hey babe it'll all be over soon." he looks to Nyao for confirmation, hope on his face.
Nyao gives a gentle nod and tips the two pouches in to the water and pushes the bowl towards Atias nose. "Drink, it will speed the birth and help with the pain."
Atia drank all of it very, very quickly. She hated being in pain. She hated being pregnant. She hated needing anyone's help, but she especially hated needing Beau's help. And she REALLY hated needing Nyao's help. Actually, of all the things she hated, that was pretty much the crown on top of it. Stupid Beau. This was all his fault. She was never having sex ever again. Ever. Maybe... not for a few months at least. Maybe a week. Whenever these babies were out of her DAMN IT.
"Whatever the hells you are doing, make this be over faster you fat litte-" Atia never got a chance to finish that insult because another contraction made her yelp angrily in pain. "GET THESE OUT OF ME!" She roared instead. And she glared at Beau, "And you... you get the hell out!" She pointed, "OUT! Becauase I'm killing whoever gets close to me next and I still need you for later!"
Nyao sighed gently "Atia, I am sorry, but I need him to stay, I can't do this on my own." She frowned and shook her head, she hated this, she hated having to ask a male of all things to witness such a delicate thing. She looks at Atias stomach and shakes her head gently moving around to settle at her tail. "Breath Atia and at the next contraction push." She shakes her head lightly, she just wanted this to be over, this was just a sign of things to come for herself. "Beau, i will hand you the cubs, clean them and put them at Atias stomach."
Beau looks at Nyao and chuckles shaking his ginger head. "What ever you say babe." Looking at Atia he flashes her a toothy cheery grina nd licks her cheek "Hey when this is all over we can celebrate." He beams moving to sit at Atias belly to watch this procedure. he was to say the least amused, though also a little freaked out that he had to be here.
"I'm going to kill you DEAD, just so we're clear." Atia told Bea with an angry snarl as she took a very, very deep breath. ANd she pushed. She could feel it... one was coming. One was almost out. Almost there... And there it was. One down... and she hoped to the gods there wouldn't be many more.
Oh how little she knew. She took another deep breath and let it out, with what was more like a pissed off scream of anger than it was anything else as another baby "left the building" so to speak.
Nyao nipped the umbilical cord carefully and passed the first cub along to beau. "Thats it Atia." She whispers nipping the second cornd and slipping the second cub to beau to.
Beau grins and rolls his eyes "Yeah baby I like it rough." He winks and grooms the two cubs, almost gently, making them breath before nudging them towards atias tummy. "Beautiful"
"One more word Nyao... One more...." Atia said in what was probably the most threatening thing she had said all day. Then she yelled, angrily, and pushed as baby number three made it's what out. "There has to be....no more...no more..." Atia cursed, but she was well aware that child would not be the last.
"One more word from you Beau... just one more...." She took a deep breath before she pushed out baby number four. And she was not getting the feeling that the end was anywhere in sight. "How many babies are IN here!?"
Nyao closed her mouth and shook her head passing the cubs along one at a time to Beau. She had guessed at least five, but there was still alot of movement in Atias womb.
Beau chuckles "Sorry baby but the babies are beautiful."
"The babies can be whatever makes them happy... BUT I AM NOT." Atia growled, long beyond cohereance as baby number five made it's way out of the womb. "How can there be MORE!? I didn't have this many when I was young! I want a ******** NAP." She declared, lying flat and breathing hard.
Baby number six made it's way out after that. But she was relieved when baby number seven was born, and she finally felt empty. No one else. There was no one else inside her. They were all gone. Gone and out, and she was still alive. She very nearly laughed, but she was too tired. She was still alive. Still kicking. She had her heirs. And she would be damned if she wouldn't train tghem o be her heirs. Beautiful didn't matter. Useful mattered. And they would be useful... or they would be cast off.
"Hehe... looks like I still got it in me... or don't now..." Atia sneered at the others. "I'm still alive..."
Nyao nodded and sighed. "rest, I'll send some herbs over later for the pain when you wake up. Congratulations, you've been blessed." She smiles at Beau and turns o leave, waddling away back to her own den,s he was exhausted, she needed a good sleep after that.
Beau nods to Nyao and settles down beside Atia "You musta been a beautiful baby" He humms to the cubs.
Atia watched Nyao walk out, breathing hard and chuckling as she closed her eyes. "One day..." She whispered when she was sure the healer was out of earshot, "One day... I'm going to kill that woman. Maybe not with my own paws.... and maybe not with theirs...." She laughed anyway, "But now... my influence... will reach beyond just me..."
Her first children, her trained children... she didn't have them to do as she desired anymore. But now she had another chance, if she lived so long. And she would.
Beau raised a brow and shakes his head. "what ever floats your boat love." He chuckles nesting up to the elderly female with a sigh,he wasn't about to cross atia, after all, it wasn't his place, he was just the boy toy after all.
She grinned, reaching out and patting his head. "Exactly why I let you stick around dear... you'll never get in the way of my plans." She told him, laughing a little. "I'm going to sleep now. Don't let the kittens wander off somewhere. I have big plans for those children... big plans." And with that, she fell asleep.
